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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Priest Creek Baptist Church. The church housed the Freedom School during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A toddler sits on the ground and laughs while paging through a book. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman pick cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two children color together in a coloring book during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Sign board used for protest in the wake of the Sterling Hall bombing that reads, "AMRC The Real Murderers,"in watercolor. |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
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| Description: | Robert Zellner with people involved in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. From left to right are Larry Rubin, Matthew Jones, Robert Zellner, M... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Addie Mae Jackson stands in front of her home where Sandra Adickes stayed while volunteering during the Freedom Summer project. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman stands and reads. Two children are nearby. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A simple map of the Mississippi Project. There are symbols at the bottom marking locations for: Voter Registration, Freedom School, Community Center and Pr... |
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| Description: | The back page of a pamphlet regarding the Freedom Democrats, including an article titled: "Wayne County Demos Train Guns On Lyndon." |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for Victoria Gray. She ran against the policies of white segregationist Senator John Stennis in the 5th District. Along with Fannie Lou Ham... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School. |
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